[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"...that government statisticians cook the numbers to make things seem better than they really are."

Ummm...isn't that what statisticians are paid to do?

Otherwise, they'd be called Accountants.

[cherry]

the "go-go" 90's were not the financial panacea that some think they were....my wages remained almost stagnant, our house values where I live were also stagnant....we had no huge stock market portfolio so the tech boom didn't help us....state and county taxes PLUS fees of all sorts were increased.....

depression...inflation....recession....its all in the eyes of the beholder....

the people out in Middle America KNOW whats going on....we don't need to be told that there is no inflation....we know that its here..

most people can sense what the economy is doing ....

where I live I don't see a bad economy.....I see lots of shopping..lots of big cars....people seem to be pretty well off...

[steve86]

Ummm...isn't that what statisticians are paid to do? Otherwise, they'd be called Accountants.

Trying to get away with some sloppy use of language late on Friday night? Accountants have never reported macro economic statistics, nor made inferences based on them, which is the true province of the statistician. Positive or negative bias is not and shouldn't be.